Aylesbury.
Labour Party MP Laura Kyrke-Smith holds the seat on 30.2% of the vote.
1 Jun 2026
A newcomer to a safe Conservative seat turned marginal, Kyrke-Smith has used her first two years to build a visible local record. She successfully campaigned for a Best Start Family Hub in Aylesbury -- confirmed in March 2026 -- and secured £216,633 in government funding for Buckinghamshire family services. Her most striking parliamentary initiative is "Sophie's Law," a private member's bill on perinatal mental health access, introduced after the death of a friend during pregnancy and backed by calls to end what she described as a "postcode lottery" for pregnant women's mental health care.
Her parliamentary engagement is solid: she votes in 89% of divisions, above the Commons average, and has made 175 contributions across 143 debates -- a notably active speech record for a first-term MP. Her speeches concentrate on defence, the economy, social care and health. She votes with Labour on every recorded division, making her a 100% party-line voter with no rebel votes. Her stance profile places her strongly behind workers' rights and progressive taxation, more cautiously behind immigration control and welfare expansion. On assisted dying she sits slightly to the sceptical side of her parliamentary colleagues, though the gap is modest.
The deviations worth noting are on parliamentary scrutiny -- she scores higher than the Labour average -- and on Lords scrutiny, where she votes consistently against Lords amendments, in line with government positions. No committee roles are listed. Local news sentiment over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across a high volume of coverage, with crime dominating local headlines; few of those articles engage directly with Kyrke-Smith's activity.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Clinton Bierton(3 seats) | Chapple · Ward · Collins | 5,485 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury East(3 seats) | Winn · Gaster · Hunter-Watts | 3,900 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury North(3 seats) | Khan · Morgan · Dixon | 3,862 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury North West(3 seats) | Christensen · Wadhwa · Hussain | 3,218 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury South East(3 seats) | Thompson · Summers · Chapple | 4,308 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury South West(3 seats) | Baldwin · Hussain · Raja | 3,237 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Aylesbury West(3 seats) | Poland · James · Lambert | 3,872 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Ivinghoe(3 seats) | Poll · Town · Brazier | 5,366 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
| Wing(3 seats) | Bond · Blamires · Cooper | 4,547 | Buckinghamshire Con | May 2021 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Aylesbury (77,793), with Rural & dispersed (6,304) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 110,145.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury | 77,793 | city |
| Rural & dispersed | 6,304 | town |
| Aston Clinton | 5,013 | town |
| Pitstone | 4,319 | village |
| Wing (Buckinghamshire) | 2,979 | village |
| Stoke Mandeville | 1,780 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 64.1% | 57.1% | +12% |
| Owner-occupied | 68.7% | 63.1% | +9% |
| Private rented | 16.7% | 20.0% | -16% |
| Social rented | 14.5% | 16.8% | -13% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £416m |
| Taxpayers | 63,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £3,380 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £6,570 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Buckinghamshire. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Kyrke-SmithWON | Lab | 15,081 | 30.2 |
| Rob Butler | Con | 14,451 | 28.9 |
| Steve Lambert | LD | 10,440 | 20.9 |
| Lesley Taylor | Ref | 6,746 | 13.5 |
| Julie Atkins | Grn | 2,590 | 5.2 |
| Jan Gajdos | Ind | 516 | 1.0 |
| Richard Wilding | Ind | 116 | 0.2 |
Turnout 49,940
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Rob Butler | Con | 54.0 |
| 2017 | David Lidington | Con | 55.0 |
| 2015 | David Lidington | Con | 50.7 |
| 2010 | Lidington, David | Con | 52.2 |
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo